On the current propaganda tour, last week I heard a guy blaming Obama for the oil spill in the gulf, that the administration didn't respond fast enough. I am flabbergasted. If the federal government had swooped in on day one and
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they would be complaining of Obama's trigger happy bent on controlling all of Time and Space, godlike in his aspirations etc. But the administration WAS actively involved, from 'day one.' Everyone who has been paying attention knows that.
More examples of propaganda:
- The altercation where a boat tangled with an Israeli naval blockade, was called a group of "terrorists" in my hearing, and another boating party is openly planning another attempt, apparently. But it was clearly a relief mission with a US representative onboard bringing medical supplies, food and stuff. They were armed but not terrorists. It blew up and lots of people died. A big mix up.
- Friends of Obama want to build a 13-story mosque on the site of the Twin Towers. Who can say what this is about, except that Obama is behind it, because we all know he's secretly a Muslim...even though he gave the most solid profession of gospel-loving, washed-in-the-blood Christian faith any presidential candidate has ever given.
- Obama openly supports the invasion of the United States by foreign powers. Boom.
- Obama is selling the souls of our nation's children to Satan by signing a bill to extend unemployment benefits, which have been expired for about 6 months.
- Obama...oh, was I too vague a moment ago? No I was perfectly clear: Obama is devising his evil machinations to allow foreign forces to invade Amer'ca. He has mobilized, he has activated, he has unleashed his massive judicial monolithic army of cyborgs the rain down like invading dragons from the sky on the noble state of Arizona for their new anti-immigration law, "which most Uh'mer'cans support." They say.
NOW.
Remember, the same sorts of unbridled, loose-cannon rhetoric was leveled against Bush for 6 years by the crazy, propagandizing left. I saw websites and read chain-emails accusing Bush of being Hitler reincarnated, picturing him with a Hitler mustache, hand lifted in a Sieg Heil sign, accused of a new colonialism, a mass-murderer, baby-killer, war-monger, conspiratorialist etc. I saw idiotic bumper stickers declaring things like "Bush is a punk-ass chump" - brilliant public discourse and focusing on the issues, I said at the time.
I denounce all of this, on either side.
But how can real dialog take place? Where and when? Who listens? Who will change their minds in the face of a stronger argument? Will they not burrow deeper? Plug their ears and chant "we shall overcome" no matter what rationality and reason may be presented? No evidence of any sort can convince most of the public. Politics has become religion, nay more, a holy war. We are right, and they are wrong, and don't forfeit your soul by believing the "lies" of the other side.
I watched Hotel Rawanda again this week. I recognized the same sorts of heated rhetoric and mindless allegiance among the Hutu's against the Tutsi's in that movie as we hear today from so many quarters.
This, this is one more reason I say we walk in a vale of tears. So many voices, so many passions, so little reason.
Spooner- tell me the veil of tears has not become a political blog!! what's gotten into you? Republicans pissing you off? The trashy rhetoric that passes for public political discourse in this country? It's been this way since I've been paying attention, and it's just as bad on both sides. I used to think Democrats were the worse group, but since the advent of the Tea Party, I don't know anymore.
ReplyDeleteI continue to believe that there's much less difference between these 2 parties than the public bickering would lead us to believe. I think both parties are self serving, and hypocritical on most points. I think government is starting to seriously fail the people because we've abandoned all pretence of advancing policies to encourage what made the country great --- that individuals were free to chose and achieve for themselves. But today the trajectory is toward socialism. I think both parties are complicit, and I think it's tragic.
As for Obama, I marvel that every decision he makes seems to be 180d out of phase with what makes sense. None of his policies make sense. He's a political infant w/ virtually no real word or government experience before somehow, riding a wave of Bush revulsion, he got swept into the White House. And by the time he runs for reelection, I doubt he's that much more popular than Bush at the end of his 2nd term, and that's going sweep some other yahoo (like Sarah Palin, God forbid) into office riding nothing but the wave of Obama revulsion, and we'll start all over.
American politics is depressing.
No, this is not a political blog. Come on, after only two entries? I write about whatever Im thinking about at the time.
ReplyDeleteI think the difference between you and me is that you are just stuck hating the situation. I've given up on any cultural reversal and moved on to the important work of creating a blog to mock the gleeful self-erosion of our culture and to augur our inevitable conquest by the Visigoths at the gates.